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  • How New York Officials Spread the Coronavirus Among the Working Poor

    How New York Officials Spread the Coronavirus Among the Working Poor0

    New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio wants New Yorkers to snitch on each other. If a New Yorker sees someone who is not practicing prescribed social distancing rules, de Blasio wants them to snap a picture and send it to 311.  Is your supermarket too crowded with people trying to feed their families? Text 311.

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  • Harvard Smears Homeschooling Parents and Their Children

    Harvard Smears Homeschooling Parents and Their Children0

    In what has to be one of the most outrageous, misguided – frankly, garbage – pieces of elitist propaganda this year, Harvard Magazine and Harvard Law School have teamed up to attack homeschooling, of all things, in a clearly coordinated one-two punch. Both attacks are baseless, stereotypical, and fundamentally flawed because they are rooted in

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  • Judge Blocks Kansas From Limiting Attendance at Religious Services

    Judge Blocks Kansas From Limiting Attendance at Religious Services0

    A federal judge blocked Kansas from limiting attendance at religious services during the coronavirus pandemic Saturday. Wichita U.S. District Judge John Broomes blocked an order from Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, limiting attendance at religious services to 10 people or fewer. Broomes’ ruling prevents Kelly’s enforcement of the order as long as pastors and

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  • Inch by Inch: The Growth of Big Government During COVID-19

    Inch by Inch: The Growth of Big Government During COVID-190

    Here comes big brother. Never willing to let a serious crisis go to waste, big government advocates have launched many programs designed to alleviate the effects of coronavirus. These touch both the physical and economic spheres of Americans’ lives. At time of writing, all or parts of 45 states are under some form of “Stay at

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  • Epidemiologist: Individual Responsibility Is Flattening Sweden’s COVID Curve

    Epidemiologist: Individual Responsibility Is Flattening Sweden’s COVID Curve0

    Sweden may be on to something. Bloomberg reports: Sweden’s unusual approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic is starting to yield results, according to the country’s top epidemiologist. Anders Tegnell, the architect behind Sweden’s relatively relaxed response to Covid-19, told local media the latest figures on infection rates and fatalities indicate the situation is starting to

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  • Coronavirus Reveals the Massive Demotion of Harry and Meghan

    Coronavirus Reveals the Massive Demotion of Harry and Meghan0

    What a difference a pandemic makes.  In January, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex, stunned the world by announcing their intention to quit the royal family. The media gave “Megxit” saturation coverage, treating it like the most significant royal news story since the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936. The Spectator argued the

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  • 2000 and 2020

    2000 and 20200

    There was real panic in the air 20 years ago. The “Y2K bug” was a deceptively simple flaw in older mainframes and software. It coded the year portion of dates with two digits, but this flaw would face a reckoning upon the turn of the millennium, as 2000 would now only be rendered as “00.”

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  • What We Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Immortality

    What We Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Immortality0

    “Is the first person who will live to 150 alive today?” asked a recent Wall Street Journal article. The piece features biology Professor Steven Austad who contends that “today’s college students… can expect to live a century or more because their health will be unlike anything seen before in human history.” I had to suppress

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  • Trump vs. the States: What Federalism Means for the Coronavirus Response

    Trump vs. the States: What Federalism Means for the Coronavirus Response0

    President Donald Trump recently attempted to explain the complex relationship between the federal government and the states, as outlined by the framers in 1787. “[Y]ou can call it ‘federalist,’ you can call it ‘the Constitution,’ but I call it ‘the Constitution,’” he said at a briefing by the Coronavirus Task Force. Trump’s statement, along with

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